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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting, this conversation.

Do SAHMs of daughters who blast "ambitious women" plan to stress stay at home as the best option for their daughters and chide them if the do not?  WIll you be the evil MIL to the working spouse of your sons?

do you also stress school achievement for your daughters? if yes why? ONly fluency in math and reading is really necessary.  Why take up space in higher ed?  why send them to preschool? enrichment classes?  try to get them into AP, GT programs? college? and please don't let them take up space in grad school or take scholarships from the ambitious.    [/quote]

I don't understand where you're going with this, PP.

My mother, my grandmothers, my great-grandmothers, were all brilliant, highly educated women.  All stayed home to raise large families.  All continued "careers" of some sort while raising their children.  They were gifted with brains and children.  Their responsibilities were to use and care for all of their gifts, and they did so.

I was raised to understand that everyone has a vocation in life, according to his/her gifts and talents.  We can't know what our vocation will be growing up, so we are to do everything to the best of our abilities, from learning to chores to being kind.  Once our vocation is clear--single, married, religious--we meet our responsibilities in that vocation.  If married, we are open to children, so that may mean a large family and lots of breastfeeding and care--or infertility, or whatever we are called to do.  How exactly we meet all our responsibilities and use all our gifts and talents is between us and God.

So my multiple generations of genius stay-at-home mothers all pushed me, and pushed me hard, to be the best in everything I did.  I was at the top of every class, won every award, did every enriching activity, and continue to pursue my intellectual passions every chance I get.  I'm also home with my children.  And it takes all of who I am to care for them.

All of my children will be pushed to do their best, regardless of gender.  Because whatever their vocation, they need to be prepared to meet and fulfill it.  Human respect, money, power--not important.  Using talents and gifts for good--all-important.[/quote]

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